SUNDAY: EPA Chief to Speak at Brown Chapel as a Part of 12th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage Events

(ATLANTA – March 2, 2012)On Sunday, March 4, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator and Obama cabinet member Lisa P. Jackson will speak to attendees at Brown Chapel in Selma, AL as a part of Faith & Politics’ 12th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage events. While in Selma, Administrator Jackson will also visit the Voting Rights Museum and participate in a re-enactment of the nearly 2-mile march from Brown Chapel across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that took place in 1965.

The 12th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage will take place from March 2-4 and includes more than 20 Members of Congress, Civil Rights luminaries and noted scholars and leaders.

WHO: EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson

WHAT: Sermon at Brown Chapel

WHEN: Sunday, March 4, 2012, 11:00 a.m. CST

WHERE: Brown Chapel, 410 Martin Luther King Street Selma, AL 36703

*** Credentialed press who would like to interview Administrator Lisa P. Jackson should e-mail pinkney.james@epa.gov by Saturday, March 3, to RSVP. Please include your name, media affiliation and contact information in your request.